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“Freuchen was married three times. He was first married in 1911 to Navarana Mequpaluk (d. 1921), an Inuit woman who died in the Spanish Flu epidemic after bearing two children (a boy named Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk (1916 - c. 1962) and a girl named Pipaluk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager (1918–1999)[2]).”
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So the 50:50 has nothing to do with the coin, just your betting confidence of it. So there's no reason the coin would balance out tosses to ensure a 50:50 ratio.
The coin (over 'large' datasets) does indeed average out very close to 50:50.
Many (slow, boring) trials have already been done to support it such as:
Yes at the start there may be some slight 'throw technique bias' and random anomolies (e.g. only 8% avg to be 50:50 by the 1st 100 throws), but over time ('000's) these things all balance out. The ying-yang or law of large numbers reigns.
Below also is the Irish lotto results each ball averaging about the 180 frequency (ignore 46-47 they were added on recently). This is for main draw only, not plus draws which further empahsises the point. Not always (more variables than coin flip), but more often than not the lotto balls will average out.
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There's also this guy. jack Churchill. here's some snippets from his wiki page. Sounds completely crazy
Churchill left the army in 1936 and worked as a newspaper editor in Nairobi, Kenya, and as a male model.[14][unreliable source?] He used his archery and bagpipe talents to play a small role in the 1924 film, The Thief of Bagdad[15] and also appeared in the 1938 film, A Yank at Oxford.[14][unreliable source?] He took second place in the 1938 military piping competition at the Aldershot Tattoo.[14][unreliable source?] In 1939, he represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships in Oslon May 1940, Churchill and some of his men ambushed a German patrol near L'Épinette (near Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais). Churchill gave the signal to attack by raising his claymore. Jack managed to start the ambush by killing one of the Germans with his longbow, proceeded by his men opening fire on the remaining Germans. After fighting at Dunkirk, he volunteered for the Commandos
btw, this is a good point to mention that he carried a long bow, claymore and bagpipes into battle.Churchill was second in command of No. 3 Commando in Operation Archery, a raid on the German garrison at Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December 1941.[19] As the ramps fell on the first landing craft, he leapt forward from his position playing "March of the Cameron Men"[20] on his bagpipes, before throwing a grenade and charging into battle. For his actions at Dunkirk and Vågsøy, Churchill received the Military Cross and Bar.In July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm,[21] which he also did in the landings at Salerno.
Leading 2 Commando, Churchill was ordered to capture a German observation post outside the town of Molina [it; nl], controlling a pass leading down to the Salerno beachhead.[22] With the help of a corporal, he infiltrated the town and captured the post, taking 42 prisoners including a mortar squad. Churchill led the men and prisoners back down the pass, with the wounded being carried on carts pushed by German prisoners. He commented that it was "an image from the Napoleonic Wars."[22] He received the Distinguished Service Order for leading this action at Salerno.[23]
Churchill later walked back to the town to retrieve his sword, which he had lost in hand-to-hand combat with the German regiment. On his way there, he encountered a disoriented American patrol mistakenly walking towards enemy lines. When the NCO in command of the patrol refused to turn around, Churchill told them that he was going his own way and that he wouldn't come back for a "bloody third time"The following morning, one flanking attack was launched by 43 Commando with Churchill leading the elements from 40 Commando. The Partisans remained at the landing area. Only Churchill and six others managed to reach the objective. A mortar shell killed or wounded everyone but Churchill, who was playing "Will Ye No Come Back Again?" on his pipes as the Germans advanced. He was knocked unconscious by grenades and captured.[25] He was later flown to Berlin for interrogation and then transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.[26]
In September 1944, Churchill and a Royal Air Force officer, Bertram James, crawled under the wire, through an abandoned drain, and attempted to walk to the Baltic coast. They were captured near the German coastal city of Rostock, a few kilometres from the sea.
In late April 1945, Churchill and about 140 other prominent concentration camp inmates were transferred to Tyrol, guarded by SS troops.[27] A delegation of prisoners told senior German army officers they feared they would be executed. A German army unit commanded by Captain Wichard von Alvensleben moved in to protect the prisoners. Outnumbered, the SS guards moved out, leaving the prisoners behind.[27] The prisoners were released and, after the departure of the Germans, Churchill walked 150 kilometres (93 mi) to Verona, Italy, where he met an American armoured unitAustralia and surfing
In later years, Churchill served as an instructor at the land-air warfare school in Australia, where he became a passionate devotee of the surfboard. Back in Britain, he was the first man to ride the River Severn's five-foot tidal bore and designed his own board.[26] During this time back in Britain, he worked at a desk job in the army.[14][unreliable source?]
Retirement (1959–1996)
He retired from the army in 1959, with two awards of the Distinguished Service Order. In retirement, his eccentricity continued. He startled train conductors and passengers by throwing his briefcase out of the train window each day on the ride home. He later explained that he was tossing his case into his own back garden so he would not have to carry it from the station.[26] He also enjoyed sailing coal-fired ships on the Thames and playing with radio-controlled model warships
He's one of those guys who sounds like he was created by a fiction writer.0 -
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